Thorn's fourth solo album was a Christmas album entitled Tinsel and Lights. Recorded in London and Berlin and produced by Ewan Pearson, it contained eight new songs and two cover versions, "Come on Home to Me" by Lee Hazlewood, and "You Are a Lover" by The Unbending Trees. Thorn's third solo album Love and Its Opposite was released in May 2010 on Ben Watt's Strange Feeling Records in the UK, and on Merge Records in the US. In 2009, Thorn collaborated with the Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman for a cover of The Magnetic Fields' "Yeah! Oh Yeah!" for a compilation album commemorating twenty years of Merge Records, Score! 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers!. In 2008, Thorn collaborated with the Hungarian acoustic downtempo group The Unbending Trees on their single "Overture", which also featured on their album Chemically Happy (Is The New Sad), released by her partner Ben Watt. 75 on the UK singles chart while the album met critical acclaim and peaked at No. The first single from the album, " It's All True", accompanied by remixes from the likes of Kris Menace & Martin Buttrich, was released on 7 February and reached No. It was produced by Ewan Pearson, who kept collaborating with her in subsequent releases. In March 2007, Thorn released her second solo album Out of the Woods on Virgin Records (Worldwide) and on Astralwerks (USA). Just prior to her return to recording in 2007, Thorn contributed vocals to the song "Damage" by the band Tiefschwarz on the album Eat Books. She also sang "The Tree Knows Everything" on Adam F's debut album, Colours. She also co-wrote and sings on the track "Better Things". Their first project together was the song " Protection" (for which she wrote the lyrics and melody) from the album by Massive Attack of the same name. In the 1990s, she collaborated with Massive Attack on several projects, including the soundtrack for the motion picture Batman Forever where she contributed with " The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game". In the 1980s, Thorn contributed guest vocals and backing vocals for The Style Council on the track "The Paris Match" (from the album Café Bleu), The Go-Betweens on their track Head Full of Steam, Working Week on the single " Venceremos (We Will Win)" and Lloyd Cole and the Commotions on the track "Big Snake". A re-recorded version of the track " Plain Sailing" was released as a single, and was included on the Pillows & Prayers Cherry Red records compilation album. Thorn's first solo work was a mini-album entitled A Distant Shore (1982). Solo career and collaborations (1982–present) The album, titled Fuse, was released in April 2023. In November 2022, Watt and Thorn announced on social media that they had recorded a new album as Everything but the Girl. During that time, Watt played on some filmed performances of Thorn's solo work and on her 2011 recording of the xx's "Night Time". " Missing" peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart, topped the charts in countries such as Canada, Denmark, Germany and Italy and peaked within the top ten of the charts in many countries, including Australia, France, the Republic of Ireland, Sweden and the United States.Įverything but the Girl was inactive from 2000 to 2022. Their biggest chart success came in 1995, when DJ Todd Terry remixed a song from their Amplified Heart album. Everything but the Girl released a body of work that spanned two decades. Their first album together was Eden, released in 1984. Thorn met Ben Watt at the University of Hull where they were both students, and both signed as solo artists to Cherry Red Records.
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